J.K. Rowling's first foray into the Americanized version of her Wizarding World was met with a solid critical reception and big box office returns.

But the response to her depiction of a magical 1926 New York City in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" is being construed as anti-American by some theatergoers.

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In the film scripted by Rowling, a spinoff of her bestselling "Harry Potter" series, a British wizard-turned-zoologist visits a United States in which the magical population's government is deadset on staying segregated from the "No Maj" world. The "Magical Congress of the United States of America" even sentences some of the film's heroes to death for using magic in front of the "No Majs."

The latter is hardly filled with pacifists, either, with a group called the "Second Salemers" focused on the eradication of wizards and witches.

Coming off the mostly whimsical "Potter" films, some fans were put off by the themes and darker tone of "Fantastic Beasts." The first of a projected five-film series, it was released Nov. 18.